Terminus in GTK2 Applications
I'm a big fan of the Terminus font, and an even bigger fan of Vim. Recent versions of Vim Debian packages are built with GTK2 instead of GTK1. GTK2 apps use TrueType fonts and in general make fonts in X even more complicated than they already were. I must have my terminus while in gvim, and it just wasn't there by default. Here's the trick:
$ dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig # answer yes to "Use Bitmapped fonts by default"